Much research has been done to increase our understanding of cancer, and many life-extending and life-saving therapies have been developed. But in these quests, we have not given sufficient focus to the cancer patient experience: one that begins with...
It’s fair to say that it’s unfair, considering school students and our aging population throughout Canada, when it comes to self-serve checkouts and self-serve gas bars.
These two self-serve establishments are endangering the much...
The fourth resident pastor was another priest from the Province of Quebec, Father Joseph Etienne Ethier. He was ordained in Montreal on Aug. 4, 1867 and was a fellow professor with Father Fournier on the staff of...
On Jan. 18, Canada Post Corporation (CPC) announced that 2020 was a record year for parcel delivery.
Obviously, public health measures had something to do with it. But parcel delivery at CPC has been...
Despite claims from the provincial government that improvements have been made, and they are committed to continuing to work on it, facts on the ground are showing that the health care system might be getting worse.
Lately, the endless stream of news stories about sexual assault by powerful men has made me feel pretty gross, not to mention increasingly worried.
Staying positive, while being exposed to one grimy detail after another, is a tough sell. Even...
We are all familiar with hospital Emergency Room
closures, and as weeks and months go by, we are witnessing more and more ER
closures for longer periods of time. The reason given is a shortage of doctors.
We are now, in 1935, on the upper road in Arichat just below the Arichat Academy.
To the west is the home of John Donahue. Continuing west is the home of John Henry (1868-1952)...
Canadian public health guidance related to COVID-19 has
been changing as the evidence base and our understanding of COVID-19 is rapidly
evolving. We are continually looking at the evidence as it is being produced
and working with our partners across...
There was been a whirlwind of activity surrounding contract negotiations between the Government of Nova Scotia and the province’s teachers.
On November 28, the Nova Scotia Teacher's Union (NSTU) announced their intention to exercise their work-to-rule option, so that on...